Bolero Shellfish Processing Inc. was fined and banned for 10 years from using the temporary foreign worker program. Bolero is owned by Montreal-based exporter Sogelco International Inc., whose plants in Atlantic Canada produce lobster, sea cucumber and crabs.

A New Brunswick seafood processing company has been fined $1-million for violating rules of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program – the largest ever fine levied by the federal government against companies that use the program for migrant labour.

Bolero Shellfish Processing Inc., based in Saint-Simon, N.B., was also banned for 10 years from using the program, making it one of just a handful of companies to be hit with a decade-long ban. The processing company is owned by Sogelco International Inc., a Montreal-based seafood exporter th

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